Saturday, January 29, 2011

Whim Wham Weekend



{Friday Highlights}
  • Daniel's 3-day weekend! (He works a 9/80 schedule at his engineering firm).
  • Breakfast in bed while watching Family Guy on Netflix.
  • Wedding pictures are done! I'll have to post a few more, plus our amazing video. Seriously, when I watch it, I feel like I'm watching "The Hills" or some reality tv show. True story!
  • Dinner at our friend's house. Shrimp pasta/Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream/Phase 10.
  • Beating Daniel in our Phase 10 game!


{Saturday Highlights}

  • 1 hr. workout and finishing our 2nd week of the Insanity program! Phew.
  • Brunch date to Bob's Red Mill. Our favorite breakfast spot!
  • Visiting some friends downtown.
  • Relaxing at home for the evening. Taco Soup and watching "It's Kind of a Funny Story." It was kind of a funny movie?

{good morning}
{must.have.food}
{ok. a cribbage game to pass the time}

{mmm. biscuits/hashbrowns/eggs/turkey bacon/cheese grits. we just worked out right?}

{downtown to visit some friends. we love this city}

Tshirt: The Monument of Our Hearts (our friend's company)
Sweater: Nordstrom
Necklace: Urban Outfitters
Jeans: H&M
Shoes: TOMS



{Sunday Highlights}
  • Church at The Well (usually)...we kind of slept in today. Hmmm. Not really a highlight, but just the truth! Gotta tell the truth people. It's real life here at the whim wham life.
  • Birthday party for my brother, James! Happy 28th big broder!


{silly brother and me as a bumblebee. what?}

{Party people. Some big people and cute little people}




Just a random mixture of little life things this weekend! Those are sometimes the best.


Hope all of you lovelies had a fabulous weekend enjoying some little things, medium things, or big things.

xoxo

{Bon Bon}



Friday, January 28, 2011

Ballerina Bon Bon




Recently we watched this movie.


It was pretty. It was dark. White Swan. Black Swan. Ballet scenes and oh.my.not.for.the.faint.of.heart.scenes. Black moments encompassed the majority of the film, but the mixture of beautiful and gloomy was so intertwined, that by the end of it, I didn't know if I should laugh or cry. Did something ethereal just happen, or plain ol' crazy?

I still can't decide if I even liked the darn thing. Your thoughts?

Regardless, it was the fashion that inspired me most. Hello Rodarte! Hello cashmere, leggings, shrugs, airy skirts, off-shoulder sweaters and tights in grey, nude, and blush tones. Long gone are my days at the barre in my pink leotard, {maybe that's why I've become so clumsy in life. sad story}, but I can still pretend to be graceful!

Here's my interpretation of Swan Lake via my closet. I pulled out a few things that make me feel like a dainty ballerina and I possibly did a plié or two along the way, just saying.





White Swan
Leggings: Nordstrom
Shoes: Urban Outfitters
Headband: Adidas
Earrings: A gift {handmade}
Necklace: A gift {handmade}
Scarf: Anthropologie



Top: Solemio
Sweater: Matty M
Earrings: A gift

Top: Silence & Noise
Hairband: Urban Outfitters
Shorts: Lululemon
Legwarmers: A gift
Earrings: A gift



Black Swan
Top: Soprano
Headband: Forever 21
Skirt: Forever 21
Tights: Urban Outfitters



{The End}



Hope you enjoyed a little glimpse into what inspires me in the every day! I'm off to dance around the city with my Swan Prince today. Hooray for long weekends.

Have a lovely and lively Friday!


xoxo

{Bon Bon}


Thursday, January 27, 2011

Old & New Love


My grandparents are some of the most adorable and vibrant people you'll ever meet. Full of Southern hospitality and love. My grandma is a firecracker with the loudest laugh around the dinner table. My grandpa adores her. You can tell by the way he looks at her.

I inherited this photo a few years ago and it's one of my favorite things.

{on the navy ship missing his young bride}



{guess what I do most of the time}


Hello romantic!

Another one of my keepsakes is a left-over wedding invitation of yours truly.

I'm hoping someday our grandkids will look at it and think we are pretty adorable.


{created by me & designed by one of my bridesmaids, Nao}




{matryoshka reply postcards}



Maybe they'll know we're in love too, by the way he looks at me.




What are some of your treasured keepsakes?


P.S. Have a lovely and lively Thursday!

xoxo

{Bon Bon}








Wednesday, January 26, 2011

a little bit of bon bon




1. I am half-Korean and half-German. In the summer I look Hawaiian. In Hawaii they thought I was local. In Africa they thought I was Spanish. It's a funny world.

2. I am 5'10." I usually wear flats. Sometimes I feel like being a pretend supermodel and I will strap on some heels. Then I tower above everyone and miss my normal life a little lower to the ground.

3. I did model. Back in the day. I was scouted at the mall by Mode Models, when I was 14, pigging out in the Candy Factory. Life is funny.

4. My favorite color is, and will always be, green. I remember picking it one day in the 1st grade, just to be different from all the girls choosing pink and purple. I've been loyal ever since.

5. I broke my pinkie in the 3rd grade while playing leap frog. I'm hardcore like that.

6. My best friend Emily and I have a complete book full of our inside jokes. The Mr. Thomnas and Luigi Jokebook. Our husbands were speechless when we introduced it to them.

7. Daniel and I met on a social outing that our fraternity/sorority houses had planned. Star-gazing trip. He drove. We talked. He sang a Josh Groban song in Spanish. The rest is history.

8. If you wake me up from a nap, I will be grumpy. This happens almost every Sunday afternoon during football season. Daniel gets a kick out of it.

9. My hair is naturally wavy and super thick. I once donated to locks of love, and I'm pretty sure 3 different people could have full heads of hair because of me! Thankfully, I won an amazingly expensive flat iron at a salon party, and my hair has finally been tamed.

10. I have been cooking since I was eleven years old. The first thing I ever made were egg and cheese breakfast burritos, recipe via my dad.

11. I am, and will always be, a daddy's girl. We have a special handshake and he calls me "sweetpea" and "his favorite little girl in the whole wide world."

12. A few years ago, I didn't wear any makeup for 3 months. It was glorious. One of the best true beauty lessons I've ever learned.

13. I am a Christian. Love God and love people. Far from perfect. Broken and been restored. I believe I live a life for something that transcends comprehension, overrules time, and forfeits never.

14. Someday I want to be somewhere in the world working with kids that are hurting and desperate for love. I got a taste of that when I lived in Rwanda.

15. A homeless man once told me, "Tyra Banks ain't got nothin' on you girl!"

16. In high school, my driver's ed. partner asked which pedal was for the gas and which was for the brake on the 1st night. Those nights were long. The freeway night especially. She didn't pass.

17. In college I played on a co-ed intramural volleyball team. We called ourselves "Notorious D.I.G."

18. Daniel and I call each other, "Peep." For 4 years now. Neither one of us can remember where it came from!

19. I put Cheetos in my PB&J and I dip my grilled cheese in ketchup. People say that's strange?

20. My earliest memory in life: When I was barely 3. I saw part of "The Little Mermaid" playing on the tv screen at Target while my mom was shopping. I couldn't sleep that night, afraid Ursula was going to steal my voice. So, the whole family bundled up and went to Costco in search for a Little Mermaid nightlight. I've had an over-active imagination ever since.


Well, there you have it. A tiny peek into who I am. Life is funny. I'm learning to live it fully and intentionally. There is magic even in the mundane.





Hope your Wednesday is lovely and lively!

P.S. Hi new friends! Can't wait to get to know you better.

xoxo

{Bon Bon}




Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Story of the Three Stooges




{Kona, Hawaii}



Once upon a time, I lived on a beautiful tropical island for a few months. I went there not knowing anyone, ready for an adventure, and trying hard on a daily basis not to miss everything I had left behind back at home for 6 months.


{especially this guy}



Thankfully, I bumped into Meredith and J.J. at the beginning of it all.


{me, jj, and mere}



We helped each other survive a tiny room with 10 girls and 1 bathroom.



{love them all}



Went on weekly dates down to Coconut Grove: Lava Java for coffee and banana pancakes or Hayashi's for $5 sushi rolls.

{best breakfast by the ocean}



Beach trips, Wal-Mart runs, karaoke, photo shoots, 2-day treks to Hilo by foot. Long conversations and heart-to-heart moments.

{trek across the island}



{we made it. long story short}


{on top of rainbow falls}






{bff photo shoot with Jim Baker}








{welcome to Oregon bridesmaids. Bachelorette party}



{Thai lunch. just the 3 of us}


{rehearsal}



{beautiful friends}



These amazing women will forever be sister-friends to me.
I kind of miss them today. Oklahoma and New York seem so far away.


Hooray for Skype, scheming up reunion #3,


and lovely Tuesday wishes to you!

xoxo

{Bon Bon}

Monday, January 24, 2011

From Russia With Love






{via}


Long story short, (someday I'll post "The Long Story"), I fell in love with a certain green-eyed Ukrainian man a few years ago. Now I have a brand-new-difficult-to-pronounce-the-cashier-at-the-grocery-store-never-gets-it-right, last name. phew.

Of course, I'm still smitten with my Ukrainian and I absolutely love my new identity as a Mrs. This name is fun. I feel so multi-cultural!
And our kids, well, our kids will be a smorgasbord of international genes. Small parts Korean and German plus a big dose of Eastern European. My main thought about that: What if they have red hair, blue eyes, and look nothing like me? I've seen it happen before people. It's a strange, strange world.
Who am I kidding? They are gonna be so adorable! Yep, I just bragged about our kids that don't even exist.


I'm getting a bit ahead of myself though. No little Svetlana or Vladimir running around anytime soon. I think.


In honor of my fancy new name and big extended family, here are some fun little babushka trinkets and lovelies to remind you of the old country.




Russian to Get Home
{via}





Squeaky Clean

{via}




Add some leggings and a bowl of borscht


{via}




O.P.I Boris & Natasha Collection



{via}




Sparkly Nesting Doll Ring

{via}





"Tro-lo-lo-loooooo" (It's a family favorite song)

{via}



Russian Red Pout
{via}



Introduce these lovely ladies to The Brothers Karamazov
{via}



Jot a few notes to your Mama and Papa
{via}




Block out the winter chill
{via}




Sweet Dreams of Caviar, Blini, and Vodka
{via}


The bebes will come someday...

{via}



Adorable clutch to store your rubles

{via}






Russian fashion for me

{via}


"Mmmmm, Fish Perogies" for him

{via}




Matryoshka Flats

{via}





Hope you enjoyed a sweet treat of Russian-inspired goodies today!
Don't forget the old country's words of wisdom:

"Love and eggs are best when they are fresh."




"Счастливое понедельник"

-Happy Monday


xoxo

{Bon Bon}


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